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The ridge ahead looked less like a battlefield and more like a shattered hillside of rock, clay, and smoke. It was early May 1945 on Okinawa, and the Marines of Company E had stalled below Hill 60. Japanese machine guns chattered from hidden bunkers. Mortar rounds crashed into the slope, showering the men with dirt and splinters of coral. Every attempt to move up the ridge drew a fresh burst of fire that pinned them
A year after Tehran, another kind of reach took shape when Boeing B-29 bombers lifted off from freshly built airfields in the Mariana Islands for the first raid on Tokyo from that direction.
Night on Iwo Jima never really felt dark. The sky glowed faintly from flares and burning wreckage, and the volcanic ash underfoot seemed to swallow every step. In a shallow foxhole—a rough, shoulder-deep fighting position scraped into that ash—Private George Phillips stood watch while the rest of his squad finally slept. They had spent the night trading grenades and rifle fire with Japanese troops slipping through th
Medal of Honor, U.S. Army, World War II
The return to Luzon combined amphibious landings, the destruction and liberation of Manila, the recovery of the bay approaches and months of fighting in mountain defenses. Capturing the capital did not end the island campaign.
In Europe, the fortified city of Metz had long been viewed as a tough nut to crack, with layers of forts dating back to earlier German rule.
A story of scattered night jumps, improvised small-unit fights, and how chaos still helped open the door into Fortress Europe.
A story of a nearly lost beach, scattered initiative, and how small groups clawed back the chance to win a war.
Two days after the Peleliu landings, American paratroopers were jumping over the Netherlands as part of an ambitious Allied plan to seize a route across major rivers into Germany.
Two years later, American forces carried that growing momentum back to the Philippines.
A 22-year-old heavy machine gunner who held back a German attack in the Battle of the Bulge
That massive naval struggle reached its most dramatic moment off Samar.
Adolphus Washington Greely — Major General U.S. Army Interim 1920 - 1940 Not documented
Elliott Malloy Norton — Second Lieutenant U.S. Army Civil War Deatonsville (Sailor's Creek), Virginia, USA
Luther Kaltenbach — Corporal U.S. Army Civil War Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Robert Alexander Reid — Private U.S. Army Civil War Petersburg, Virginia, USA
Thomas McCoy Wells — Chief Bugler U.S. Army Civil War Cedar Creek, Virginia, USA
Walter Elmore — Landsman U.S. Navy Interim 1871 - 1899 off the coast of Algeria, Algeria